New Delhi, April 24 -- Union Minister of Jal Shakti, CR Paatil, is scheduled to hold a meeting with ministry officials on Thursday following the Union Government's decision to suspend the Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan in response to the terror attack in Pahalgam, sources told ANI.

Earlier on Wednesday, in retaliation against the terror attack, which claimed 26 innocent lives, India announced a series of strong measures in response, including the abeyance of the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960 "with immediate effect, until Pakistan credibly and irreversibly abjures its support for cross-border terrorism."

The Indus Waters Treaty was signed in 1960, following nine years of negotiations between India and Pakistan, with the assistance of th...